Also for the record, I don’t personally have anything against European beer. What it lacks in hops, it makes up for in being the only beer available in Europe. Luckily, Europe makes good wine.Continue Reading

Europe was great and all, but I’m going to let you in on a secret. I missed blogging. I missed the kitchen, I missed writing about it, and I missed you. All of you. Sound weird? Weirder than being on a fantastic, once-in-a-lifetime vacation and wishing you were installing a bathroom door?

Welcome aboard the crazy train, I guess.

I’m going to assume that, like me, you are also more interested in DIY projects than vacation pictures. So I promise to get 2 1/2 weeks crammed into this one post, so we can all happily return to the kitchen. Let’s start with the event that inspired this trip in the first place: Oktoberfest!

We’re working on the third (and final!) coat of mud right now. By the end of the weekend, I hope to be ready for paint. YAY PAINT!! But basically this means that all of the “progress” photos this week look exactly like last week’s.

So I thought this would be a good time to share some photos of something a little more interesting: our trip to Morocco. Finally! Continue Reading

First of all, in case you missed it on Facebook: we passed the building inspection! YAY!! On the first try and everything!

And that means that within a couple of days we should be putting up drywall! SO. FREAKING. HAPPY!

Except for one little thing: We’re going on vacation. In fact, we’re leaving in a couple of hours to make our way to Paris for the first leg of a MOROCCAN HIKING ADVENTURE with some of our bestest friends in the world (holla, Mike and Lindsay!) We’ll be gone for two and a half weeks. And when we get back, it will be Memorial Day weekend — so I’m guessing that most of the people who have volunteered to help us hang drywall will be unavailable. So drywall still isn’t going to happen for almost another month.

But still…SO. FREAKING. EXCITED!! The drywall can wait, amiright?Continue Reading